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Their ringmaster is Jan Hartman'60, and in a sense his job is an easy one; it is difficult for an intelligent group of actors to go very far wrong with Waiting for Godot. The play is constructed of a series of savage ironies, with a vein of harsh pessimism running behind it and through it. So long as the ironies and the pessimism emerge, a director can take the play any way he likes, if he moves with intelligence and consistency...
...Waiting for Godot" will go on tomorrow as originally scheduled despite the recent arrest of two cast members imported from the Actors' Repertory Theatre, Jan A. Hartmann '59, director, said yesterday. The play will run through Sunday and again from Dec. 5-8 in the Ballroom of the Hotel Commander...
...York actors from the cast of Waiting for Godot trounced three Yale students Saturday night in front of Elsie's, after the Yalies had continued to taunt them for several minutes...
...news of Godot's creator and another avant-garde beatnik, see BOOKS...
Author Beckett (Waiting For Godot) himself never answers these questions about his central character. His identity and his past remain obscure-beyond the fact that Mahood's entire family was killed off by sausage poisoning. But it does not take much imagination to see in Mahood (Manhood?) Author Beckett's savage symbol for mankind. Beckett's great strength is to make his readers uneasy. Like all Beckettmen, Mahood echoes the old existentialist plaint that he did not ask to be born and that life's mess is not of his making. Despairingly he sums...